Federal Carbon Price established at $10 a tonne in 2018, rising to $50 by 2022
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Well, there was actually, but the debate continues as to whether it led to the Neanderthals' demise. In any case, no amount of action or inaction by us is going to change the course of what happens naturally. We must think really highly of ourselves if we think otherwise.
Of course I can't be sure, I wasn't there. Were you? A number of anthropologists and archaeologists believe so after much research, and digging.
Most premiers sense more opportunity than threat in Mr Trudeau’s plan, seeing it as a chance to extract goodies from the federal government. Friendly collaboration is finished, says Tracy Snoddon of the C.D. Howe Institute, a think-tank. Now “a period of hard bargaining, posturing and demands for compensation and concessions begins.” Rachel Notley, Alberta’s premier, gave Mr Trudeau a taste of what is in store when she huffed that she would not support a national carbon price until she saw progress on plans for a pipeline to carry her province’s crude oil to one of Canada’s coasts. Quebec wants the federal government to give $1 billion to Bombardier, a struggling aircraft-maker. Other provinces have their own wish-lists.
The biggest prize, universally coveted, is more federal money for health care, the largest item in provinces’ budgets. To help pay for it, the federal government will this year give them C$36 billion, its biggest transfer. This has been growing by 6% a year since 2004. Mr Harper’s government decided that from 2017 the rate of growth would fall to that of nominal GDP, which is projected to average 3.8% over the next few years. (There is a floor of 3%.)
Let the haggling begin | The Economist
The biggest prize, universally coveted, is more federal money for health care, the largest item in provinces’ budgets. To help pay for it, the federal government will this year give them C$36 billion, its biggest transfer. This has been growing by 6% a year since 2004. Mr Harper’s government decided that from 2017 the rate of growth would fall to that of nominal GDP, which is projected to average 3.8% over the next few years. (There is a floor of 3%.)
Let the haggling begin | The Economist
Wouldn't you prefer a price on hydrocarbons?
Why do Premiers expect more out of Ottawa with an allegedly neutral taX?
Why do Premiers expect more out of Ottawa with an allegedly neutral taX?
The tax is coming and Sasquatch is the least prepared.
Um....sasquatch is a BC thing. Pls think before you post.
I do not expect you to realize the error of your ways. Do not spend another minute thinking about it.